Publications: child writing

Books

Durrant, P. (2023). Corpus linguistics for writing development. Routledge.

Durrant, P., M. Brenchley & L. McCallum. (2021). Understanding development and proficiency in writing: quantitative corpus linguistic approaches. Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles

Durrant, P. (2025). What can a corpus tell us about school writing? Findings, challenges, and future directions. Applied Corpus Linguistics.

Durrant, P., E. Akbaş, E. Barbaros, & A. Aldawood (2024). Linking adverbials in children’s writing: exploring variation across year groups, genres, and disciplines. Applied Linguistics.

Durrant, P., H. Dirdal, & V. Tveitan (2024). Vocabulary sophistication in children’s L2 school writing. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research.

Dirdal, H., H., S.H. Johansen, and P. Durrant (2024). Representativeness and metadata presentation in learner/child corpora: lessons from the GiG and TRAWL corpora. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.

Durrant, P. & M. Brenchley (2023). Development of noun phrase complexity across genres in children’s writing. Applied Linguistics.

Durrant, P. (2022). Studying children’s writing development with a corpus. Applied Corpus Linguistics.

Durrant, P. & A. Durrant (2022). Appropriateness as an aspect of lexical richness: what do quantitative measures tell us about children’s writing? Assessing Writing.

Durrant, P, M. Brenchley & R. Clarkson (2020). Syntactic development across genres in children’s writing: the case of adverbial clauses. Journal of Writing Research.

Durrant, P. & M. Brenchley (2019). Development of vocabulary sophistication across genres in English children’s writing. Reading and Writing.

Book Chapters

Durrant, P. (in press). L1 Learner language at school and university. In Reppen, R., L. Goulart, & D. Biber (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.

Durrant, P. & D. Myhill (in press). Growth in Grammar, Growth in Professional Practice. In G.Brookes, N.Curry, & R.Love (Eds.). Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Impact and Innovation. Cambridge University Press.

Durrant, P. & M. Brenchley (2021). The development of academic collocations in children’s writing. In P. Szudarski & S. Barclay (Eds). Vocabulary Theory, Patterning and Teaching. Multilingual Matters.

Durrant, P. & M. Brenchley (2019). Corpus research on the development of children’s writing in L1 English. In A. Abel, A. Glaznieks, V. Lyding & L. Nicolas (Eds), Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research. Selected Papers from the Fourth Learner Corpus Research Conference. Presses Universitaires de Lovain.